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telegraph service.
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staff above mentioned is, as a rule, appointed under agreement, either by the
Post Office Board or, to a great extent, by the various postal directors.
Altogether the total number of officials belonging to the district- and
local-administrations, apart from the postmen on highway-lines and the sellers of
stamps, amounted at the close of 1913 to 10 034 of whom 9 605 were men
and 1 028 were women.
In order to obtain an appointment as an assistant clerk, it is necessary to be
between the ages of 18 and 24, both inclusive, and to have a course of training
as a postal pupil. Admission to such a course is granted only to those who have
passed their matriculation or "realskole" examination, or who possess a full final
certificate from the State Normal School for Girls in Stockholm, or from any
other 8-class girls secondary school whose final certificate is considered as showing
qualifications equal to those required for the "realskole"-examination. The course
of the postal pupils lasts 21 months and embraces trial practical post-office work
as postal-pupil probationer during the period August 16—-January 15, a theoretical
course at the educational institute of the post-office in Stockholm during the
period February 1—May 15, and a practical pupils’-course during the period
June 1—May 15. The final examination is held during the latter half of the
May of the final year of training.
5. TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
The first optical or signal telegraph (semaphore) in Sweden was erected
in 1794. In the autumn of that year, a signal telegraph, constructed
by A. N. Edelcrantz, was tried between Stockholm and the Royal Palace
of Drottningholm, 10 kilometers distant.
The telegraph erected — almost simultaneously with that of Chappe in
France, but on an independent system — proved so practical that, during the
following years, new telegraph-lines were established between Stockholm and
various important points at the sea-entrance to the capital, as well as at
several places on the west and south coasts of the country. The constructions
mentioned, which to a great extent were brought about by the necessity, during
the war of 1808 and 1809, for a quick and safe signal-service, fell into decay,
however, at the end of the war. It was only in 1836 that the Government
determined on their re-establishment: a telegraph-corps was established, under
the direction of the chief of the Topographical Corps, and received its
regulations in 1838.
The subsequent development of the signal telegraph was, however, of very
short duration, in consequence of the discovery of the incomparably greater
capability of electricity to convey communications quickly and surely over great
distances. After the introduction of the electric telegraph, the signal telegraph
stations were, by degrees, done away with, and the last was removed in 1881.
The first electric wire telegraph in Sweden was set up in 1853,
between Stockholm and Uppsala, under the superintendence of
Major-General Carl Alcrell, who afterwards became the first Director-General
of the Telegraph Service. During the two following years, new
lines were put up from Uppsala, via Västerås, Örebro, and Vänersborg,
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